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Zdrowie jako prawo człowieka
Health as a Human Right

Author(s): Włodzimierz Galewicz
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: the right to health; human rights; the duties of the state; the principle of non-discrimination; the indispensable minimum; Paul Hunt; Halfdan Mahler; Brigit Toebes; Richard Wasserstrom

Summary/Abstract: The subject matter of this article is the right to health as one of the moral rights granted to all human beings. In the first part, I provide an overview of selected international documents that consider health (or “the highest attainable standard of health”) a human right and, in the second part, I investigate the most significant commentaries on these documents. Accordingly, I attempt to bring out and arrange in an order the main ethical claims contained in these documents and commentaries, discussing such issues as the kinds of rights related to health, the conditions of access to health-related goods or the duties of the states implicated by the right to health.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 42
  • Page Range: 57-82
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish